Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is short, we don't live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile.

Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.

To be a writer is to sit down at one's desk in the chill portion of every day, and to write; not waiting for the little jet of the blue flame of genius to start from the breastbone - just plain going at it, in pain and delight. To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again, and once more, and over and over...

The final test of a work of art is not whether it has beauty, but whether it has power.

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.

To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again and once more, and over and over.

The writer must not invent. The legend on the license must read: NONE OF THIS WAS MADE UP.